The Gentoo minimal CD has very little support for WiFi and Broadcom are amoung the more difficult to make work.

You can install Gentoo from any Linux that you happen to have already as nothing from the boot system goes into your install.
The boot system provides only the tools you need to carry out the install. The one constraint is that you need a 64 bit kernel do do a 64 bit install.

If you don't have any Linux CDs/DVDs lying around that will drive your WiFi, then System Rescuse CD is highly recommended.
Its Gentoo based, provides a lightweight GUI, so you can read the handbook and post here while you install and you can follow the handbook with no extra steps._________________Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

It is highly recommended to use the systemRescue CD - it has kernels for both 32 and 64 bit, and NetworkManager for easy setup. It's XFCE, but I won't hold that against them. The file structure and tools in the live environment are already set up to facilitate using the Gentoo Handbook for installing Gentoo.

That being said, is it possible that the wireless card is being pulled in under a different name? ifconfig and iwconfig, without "eth0" or "wlan0" will list all the networking and wireless devices (respectively) by their interface names. Wireless devices will stil show up in ifconfig. Check those first.

I gotta say though, after wrestling with the Minimal CD with wpa_supplicant and the ath9k driver, the System Rescue CD was a breath of fresh air.

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